LadyK82

I would have to say lying flat and applying pressure to the area. I know fluids are important, but they can't drink fluids if they're bleeding to death. I know with a liver biopsy you have to lay on the right side and on our test it was the priorit...

When I got each of my Hep shots my arm started to swell up to the size of a tennis ball around the injection site. It was very painful and radiated down my entire arm... and I got the pleasure of going through it three times for the series :stone. ...

I just started my second semester in an ADN program and I have been going non-stop. I am so stressed out and have started to really get discouraged and wonder if I'm in over my head. In clinical last week, just before post conference, a Code Blue wa...

I have a Pharmacology test tomorrow over ANS. I can't seem to figure out when you should give Antiadrenergic VS. Cholenergic. Don't they basically do the same thing, which is decrease/block sympathtic activity?? Please help!!!! Thanks!

I personally think you did the right thing. What would you have done if you crushed the med and something happened to the patient? It would have been your name tossed around as the one that made a med error. Kudos to standing up for the patient. ...

We wear a royal blue uniform with school logo on the front and all white shoes. We were never told we couldn't wear jewelry. They do however make a big stink about hair being pulled back off the collar. I'm soooo glad we don't have all white.... c...

the nursing shortage is probably what I'd write about. You can find lots of stats and articles on that topic to refer to.

Our school uniforms for clinical are royal blue. None of the hospitals that I've been to in the Houston area wear white. The new first semester nursing students that just entered our program and start clincals in March aren't wearing white either. ...

There are many people in my program that have young children and are in nursing school. We even have one girl that is 6 months pregnant and is in her second semester. It can be done. I'm sure you've heard about how stressful nursing school is and ...

Overall, would most of you say that your patients were pretty receptive to having a student nurse do things like IV's, meds, wound care etc? Or were they apprehensive about your knowledge and skills as a student? So far I've found most patients to ...

i knew nothing about nursing and just sorta jumped into it. I like it though and I feel like I've learned more the past 6 months than I have learned in my 12 years of school.

Today was so incredibly overwhelming that I'm still trying to catch my breath. We had a clinical math exam today at 8am and then we had orientation for clinical where we have to do all sorts of projects... in addition to the two other classes we are...

A lot of women are two faced drama queens. Too bad they can't wake up and realize that they are professionals & that they have a job to do. Not all women are like this of course, but unfortunately some are. Some people just need the attention ...

Nightmares are more like it. I woke up having a panic attack one night b/c I was nervous about a math exam coming up for clinical entry. Everything turned out okay in the end....but it's not what i would consider a sweet dream!

In my program, if you don't read, you don't pass. The majority of the material comes from the book and a lot of our courses are independent study so we have to depend on the text book for the test info. Our instructors are also very big on pop-quiz...

I've heard that too, about there now being fill-in-the-blank questions on NCLEX. I think one of our nurisng professors told us that. I think it's pretty scary. If it's true, I wonder if it takes longer to get the results. It seems like they would...

It NEVER snows in Houston b/c it is always too hot! Every Christmas we are walking around in shorts b/c it's usually like 70 degrees. To my surprise, I walked outside tonight and it was snowing. I couldn't believe it. My car was covered in snow &...

I just have to say how encouraging your post was! It's comforting to know that people really do make it to the end! Congrats on a job well done! How adorable that your grandson cheered for you! :balloons:

We do everything on dummies... NG tubes, catheters, IV's, everything. If we want to practice on a live person, we have to find a very understanding family member! As far as med access goes, we have to have the RN we are working with or our instruct...

I know how you feel. I decided that I wanted to be a nurse and when I told my dad he said "A nurse? Why? You'll just be wiping people's butt's for the rest of your life." He said I needed to go into insurance b/c they make a lot of money. Not to...

I know how you feel. I decided that I wanted to be a nurse and when I told my dad he said "A nurse? Why? You'll just be wiping people's butt's for the rest of your life." He said I needed to go into insurance b/c they make a lot of money. Not to...

one lady showed up to our orientation and had just found out she was pregnant the week before and we never saw her again. Some people just stop coming and you dont really know why. Several people have just up and quit b/c they disliked the instruct...

one lady showed up to our orientation and had just found out she was pregnant the week before and we never saw her again. Some people just stop coming and you dont really know why. Several people have just up and quit b/c they disliked the instruct...